Historical association of the canton of Solothurn

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Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn
(HVKS)
purpose Maintaining and promoting academic activity in the field of history and antiquity, especially Solothurn history
Chair: Marianna Gnägi-Vögtli (President)
Establishment date: July 6, 1853
Number of members: 869 ( as of December 31, 2011)
Seat : Solothurn
Website: www.hvso.ch

The Historical Society of the Canton of Solothurn is a historical society founded in 1853 in the Canton of Solothurn , Switzerland . He publishes the yearbook for Solothurn history and organizes lectures and excursions. In the past he was also the owner of castle ruins and was responsible for excavations and renovations.

founding

Robert Glutz

The historical association, like the Solothurn Pottery Society and the Natural Research Society of the Canton of Solothurn , has its roots in the Litterarian Society of the City of Solothurn, which was initiated by the historian Robert Glutz von Blotzheim . As part of this society, Glutz took over from 1810 together with Urs Joseph Lüthy and Peter Ignaz Scherer, known as the "Doktor Urkundio", the publication of the Solothurn weekly newspaper , which succeeds the Solothurn weekly newspaper published by Franz Josef Gassmann from 1788 to 1794 , but himself should also dedicate to the history of Solothurn. The latter was done through essays on historical subjects and the rendering of historical documents. Even the loose association of the publishers of the "Wochenblatt" can, according to Hans Sigrist's account, be regarded as the forerunner of the historical association. After the Wochenblatt was discontinued in 1834 with the death of its editors Scherer and Lüthy (Glutz had already resigned from the editorial team in 1815), the Canton of Solothurn lacked an organ for historical publications for over ten years. In 1845 the writer Alfred Hartmann , the lawyer Jakob Amiet and Friedrich Fiala , pastor and later bishop of Basel , founded a "weekly paper for friends of literature and patriotic history", which had to cease publication in mid-1847 due to a lack of subscribers and advertisers. From 1851 to 1857, Fiala and six other friends of history published the first volume of a historical collection of writings, which was entitled "Urkundio" in Scherer's honor. After the editors had initially formed a loose "History Research Association" without statutes, the Historical Society of the Canton of Solothurn was officially founded on July 6, 1853 on the occasion of the upcoming annual meeting of the General History Research Society of Switzerland .

The newly founded association thus placed itself in a series of similar historical associations as they already existed in other cantons. Its members consisted primarily of former aristocrats , many clergymen and later also "old liberal" representatives of the liberal spirit. According to Sigrist, these associations were to be understood as a "counter-movement against the radical spirit of progress", as was the case in the canton of Solothurn. In his work “The Discovery of the Roman Era in the Canton of Solothurn”, however, Marius Gehrig takes the opinion that the majority of the founding members “evidently represented an enlightened-liberal or a free-spirited-democratic position”. However, the association did not interfere in the business of daily politics. Initially, the association was closely connected to the pottery society, whose founders were to a large extent also members of the historical association. The Pottery Society has been holding general educational lectures since 1857, initially also on historical topics. However, since the end of 1868 the historical association has maintained its own regular lecture program, while the pottery society (with occasional exceptions) no longer holds historical lectures. Individual lectures had already been given in 1854 and 1865 as part of the historical association.

Publication activity

From 1863 the second volume of «Urkundio» began to appear, which until 1895 was published in three issues. As a follow-up publication, 14 volumes of the series "Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein des Kantons Solothurn" were published by 1927, each of which contained a completed historical study. Since this form of publication no longer met the requirements of the association, it was decided in 1927 to publish a "yearbook for Solothurn history" in future, which, in addition to historical articles and mishaps, also reports on the activities of the association, an annual bibliography on Solothurn history and a chronicle of the present should offer. The yearbook has been published since 1928 and in 2012 it reached the 85th volume. Since 2011, the “Bibliography of Solothurn History Literature” has no longer been printed in the yearbook, but exclusively in the form of an online database on the Solothurn Central Library website . In addition, the association occasionally published individual publications , for example on the occasion of joint meetings with the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern in 1864 and 1868, and supported publications by individual members.

Castle and soil research

In the past, the historical association dealt with the restoration of Alt-Falkenstein Castle and the ruins of Gilgenberg , Alt-Bechburg , Neu-Falkenstein and Balm . Some of the ruins were owned by the association for some time. Around 1930, due to different ideas about how to preserve the Gilgenberg ruins, there was a violent public conflict between Eugen Tatarinoff in his capacity as President of the Historical Association and the Zurich architect Eugen Probst , President of the Swiss Castle Association . In the 19th century the association also carried out excavations , for example in 1862 at the Roman Catholic Church of Grenchen , around 1881 on the Steinhof and in 1887 when the St. Stephen's Chapel in Solothurn was demolished.

Members

As of December 31, 2011, the Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn had a total of 869 members, 40 of them collective members and 104 municipalities. He is in correspondence with 47 domestic and 30 foreign exchange companies.

literature

  • Marius Gehrig: The discovery of the Roman era in the canton of Solothurn . A contribution to the history of the Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn. In: Yearbook for Solothurn History . tape 85 , 2012, p. 9–127 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-392508 .
  • Hans Sigrist: 125 years of the Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn . In: Yearbook for Solothurn History . tape 51 , 1978, p. 5–37 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-324679 (also as a special print).
  • Gotthold Appenzeller: Hundred Years of Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn, 1853–1953 . In: Yearbook for Solothurn History . tape 26 , 1953, pp. 17–176 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-323787 .
  • Ferdinand von Arx, Eugen Tatarinoff: The historical association of the canton Solothurn . Festschrift to commemorate his 50th anniversary, 1853–1903. Gassmann, Solothurn 1903.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History . Historical association of the canton of Solothurn. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Sigrist, p. 7
  3. ↑ Sigrist, pp. 7–8
  4. ↑ Sigrist, pp. 10-11
  5. ↑ Sigrist, p. 10
  6. ↑ Gehrig, p. 115
  7. ↑ Gehrig, pp. 115–116
  8. ↑ Appenzeller, pp. 28–29
  9. ↑ Sigrist, pp. 11-12
  10. ↑ Appenzeller, p. 28
  11. ↑ Available online at E-Periodica , accessed January 11, 2015
  12. ↑ Available online at E-Periodica , accessed January 11, 2015
  13. ↑ Appenzeller, pp. 85–86
  14. ↑ Available online at E-Periodica , accessed January 11, 2015
  15. ↑ Appenzeller, pp. 86–87
  16. ↑ Appenzeller, p. 89
  17. ↑ Eugen Tatarinoff, Stephan Pinösch: Defense of the Historical Association of the Canton of Solothurn against the attacks of Mr. Eugen Probst, architect in Zurich. Solothurn, 1930.
  18. ^ Eugen Probst: Answer to the diatribe of the Historisches Verein Solothurn from February 1930. Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1930.
  19. ↑ Appenzeller, pp. 93–97
  20. ^ Yearbook for Solothurn History . tape 85 , 2012, p. 368 .